Reducing the startup latency of functions in a FaaS infrastructure
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032970
Techniques for reducing the startup latency of functions in a Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) infrastructure are provided. In one set of embodiments, a function manager of the FaaS infrastructure can receive a request to invoke a function uploaded to the infrastructure and can retrieve information associated with the function. The retrieved information can include an indicator of whether instances of the function may be sticky (i.e., kept in host system primary memory after function…
Techniques for patching in a distributed computing system
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032953
A system may include multiple software components of a software application running on multiple nodes in a distributed computing system, a patch execution server including a patch build server including a structured patch execution module connected to the distributed computing system via a network. The patch execution module receives an uploaded patch, a patch definition file, and a workflow template from a global patch repository. Further, the patch execution module creates a patch…
Scanning preview method for a remote application when using scanner redirection for remote desktop services
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12028491
A scanning preview method for a remote desktop system that includes a client computing device that has running therein a remote desktop client application including a scanner redirection module, and a host server, the scanner redirection module including a scanner core that is configured to communicate with a physical scanner, includes the steps of: receiving from an application running on the host server, a request for a preview of a scanned image; in response to the request for the…
Risk based virtual workspace delivery
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12028367
Systems and methods can enable select virtual session capabilities on a user device configured to access a virtual session, which is an instance of a virtual machine. The user device can receive and forward to a gateway sever, a request to launch a virtual session. Based on the virtual session launch request, the gateway server can obtain a compliance profile determined from operational data. The gateway can permit user device access a virtual session hosted on a virtual machine…
Workflow service back end integration
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12028329
Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service back end integration. In some examples, a command is transmitted causing a client device to present a workflow action to perform. A user command to perform the workflow action is identified using the client device. Authentication data including user credentials and a navigation action for a visual user interface is identified. The user credentials are transmitted to the network service and an emulation of the navigation action is…
Propagating fault domain topology to nodes in a distributed container orchestration system
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026045
An example method of propagating fault domain topology information in a distributed container orchestration system includes: receiving, at control plane software executing in a data center, the fault domain topology, which includes tags for a protection group and fault domains for remote sites in communication with the data center; deploying, by a master server of the distributed container orchestration system that executes in the data center, a node pool comprising virtual machines…
Scaling of logical router pods
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12021682
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring logical routers of a logical network. The logical routers are implemented in a Kubernetes cluster as a first set of Pods that each perform logical forwarding operations for the logical routers and a second set of Pods that each perform L7 service operations for a respective logical router. From a Kubernetes control plane component, the method receives a notification that the first set requires scaling to include an additional Pod. The…
Method and system to perform encryption and decryption operations during rekey in virtualized computing environment
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12021981
An example method for a first host, being an owner of an object stored in a virtual storage area network (vSAN) cluster, to perform encryption and decryption operations during a rekey in the vSAN cluster is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a first encryption key and a first key identifier (ID) of the first encryption key; transmitting the first key ID and an active key index to a second host; using the first encryption key to perform encryption and decryption operations; and in…
Packet processing with hardware offload units
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12021759
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for configuring multiple hardware offload units of a host computer to perform operations on packets associated with machines (e.g., virtual machines or containers) executing on the host computer and to pass the packets between each other efficiently. For instance, in some embodiments, the method configures a program executing on the host computer to identify a first hardware offload unit that has to perform a first operation on a packet…
Systems and methods for implementing multi-part virtual network functions
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12021735
Examples of the present disclosure can include a method. The method may include (1) obtaining, by an network function virtualization orchestrator (“NFVO”), path computation information from the integrated network, the integrated network including a virtual source and a virtual destination, (2) generating, using the path computation information, segments identifying portions of a virtual network path originating at the virtual source and terminating at the virtual destination, (3)…
Bridging virtual desktops under nested mode
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020091
A system is described for establishing a nested bridge to improve data exchange between a client device and a second virtual desktop accessed by the client device through a first virtual desktop in a nested mode configuration. The nested bridge can be established between a virtual desktop agent of the first virtual desktop and a virtual desktop client of the second virtual desktop, both of which can run in the first virtual desktop, to enable fast and efficient exchange of data between…
Quality of service scheduling with workload profiles
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020085
Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service (“QoS”) requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler (“DRS”) acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload…
Desired state management of software-defined data centers with a plurality of desired state configurations
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020040
A method of managing configurations of SDDCs of a tenant includes the steps of: retrieving a base configuration document, a first supplemental configuration document of a first SDDC, and a second supplemental configuration document of a second SDDC; issuing, to the first SDDC, a first instruction to update a running configuration state thereof according to the base configuration document and the first supplemental configuration document; and issuing, to the second SDDC, a second…
Managing an upgrade of a virtualization infrastructure component
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020011
In a method for managing an upgrade of a virtualization infrastructure component, a plurality of metadata manifests corresponding to a plurality of software upgrade bundles is received, a software upgrade bundle for upgrading a virtualization infrastructure component from a source version to a target version, a metadata manifest comprising a listing of applications comprised within a corresponding software upgrade bundle and installation instructions for the applications comprised within…
Force provisioning virtual objects in degraded stretched clusters
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019882
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for force provisioning virtual objects in degraded stretched clusters. A request to provision a virtual object by a stretched cluster according to a storage policy specified as part of the request can be received by a software defined data center (SDDC). The cluster can include a plurality of sites. An insufficiency of storage policy resources to satisfy the storage policy specified for the virtual object…
Opening unsupported file types through remoting sessions
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019591
Viewing and editing operations on a file having an unsupported file type are enabled through a method of opening the file through a remoting session. The method includes the steps of receiving login information from a user and determining if there is a recent open file request. In response to determining there is a recent open file request, the method includes the step of determining whether the file is synchronized. If the file is synchronized, the method includes the steps of launching…
Smart prefetching for remote memory
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019554
A method of prefetching memory pages from remote memory includes detecting that a cache-line access made by a processor executing an application program is an access to a cache line containing page table data of the application program, identifying data pages that are referenced by the page table data, initiating a fetch of a data page, which is one of the identified data pages, and starting a timer. If the fetch completes prior to expiration of the timer, the data page is stored in a…
Event-based diagnostic information collection
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019505
An example computing device includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may include a diagnostic daemon executing in a user space. The diagnostic daemon may include a plugin layer and a plurality of plugins communicatively connected to the plugin layer. Each plugin may perform at least one operation related to diagnostic data collection. The plugin layer may receive an event from a component running in the computing device upon the component encountering an…
Offloading packet processing programs from virtual machines to a hypervisor and efficiently executing the offloaded packet processing programs
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014197
In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a host system can receive a packet processing program from a virtual network interface controller (NIC) driver of a virtual machine (VM) running on the hypervisor. The hypervisor can then attach the packet processing program to a first execution point in a physical NIC driver of the hypervisor and to a second execution point in a virtual NIC backend of the hypervisor, where the virtual NIC backend corresponds to a virtual NIC of the VM that…
Communications across privilege domains within a central processing unit core
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014203
Systems and methods are described for communications across privilege domains within a central processing unit (“CPU”) core. The CPU core can store a kernel context associated with an operating system within the CPU. An application can request access to the CPU, and the CPU can load a user context associated with the application into the CPU. The CPU can execute instructions from the application while both the kernel context and the user context persist in the CPU. Because both…
